1.a. Starting from the Bloomington Order Form
Enter your Bloomington User Number (BUN) or the last name (use only the last, or family, name) of the group leader to whom your BUN is registered and submit the form (click Submit or press the Enter key). Stocks will be sent to this address. Check that the name and address shown are yours!

1.b. Starting from a FlyBase Stock Record (for example, 1635)
Click the Order this Stock button. An order form with the stock number entered will be displayed.

• If you are ready to order this stock enter your Bloomington User Number (BUN) or the last name (use only the last, or family, name) of the group leader to whom your BUN is registered and click the Go! button at the bottom of the page.
• If you want to accumulate more stock numbers before placing an order, select Save Stocks as File from the menu at the bottom of the page and provide a file name, then click Go! (help is available from the Filename link).

2. If you entered a BUN or a name that happens to be unique in step 1 than select your name from the resulting list and submit the form. If a list of group leaders with the same last name is displayed, select your group leader from the list, submit the form, then select your name from the next list and submit the form. If you are the only user of your BUN and we have an e-mail address for you your name is automatically selected and the order form is displayed. Stocks will be sent to this address. Check that the name and address shown are yours!

3. If we don't have an e-mail address on file for you a page asking for that information will be displayed (we do not share our e-mail list). Enter your e-mail address and submit the form.

4. The order form will now be displayed. Check the mailing and e-mail address information and be sure that it is correct.

5. Leave the New Order menu as it is if you are placing a new order. If you are reordering stocks that arrived dead select Dead on Arrival. Do no mix requests for new stocks and reshipped stocks. If you need both replacements and new stocks, please submit a separate form for each category. Orders for reships must be placed as soon as you receive dead cultures.

6. The form provides two options for specifying the stocks being ordered: a type-in/paste-in box and a file-upload option. In additions, links are provided to lists of stock numbers that make up predefined sets. These numbers can be copied and pasted into the order form. Follow the link to the section you want to use, or scroll to that section. You may combine stocks in a single order using both sections of the form.

• Type-in/paste-in section
  Type the stock numbers you want, or paste them in from a database, spreadsheet or word-processing application. Use only the integer form of the stock number. Separate numbers with a space, a comma, a semicolon or a line return.
• Lists of predefined sets
  Open the link to Bloomington Predefined Sets (this link will automatically open in a new browser window). Identify a set you want to order, open the link in the Set Stock Numbers (or Subset) column (the blue columns) for that set, copy the numbers provided, return to the order form and paste the set numbers into the order form.
• File upload
  If you have created a file of stock numbers on your computer you can use this section to load the data into the order form. Type in the path to the file or use the browse button to select it. The file must be in plain text format and it must contain only valid stock numbers; see Stock Number Formats. Uploaded stocks will be included in the Preview page.

7. Preview your request

• Preview Page (Print the Preview page to keep a detailed record of your order)
  If all of the stock numbers you included on the form or in an uploaded file are valid and unrestricted, a Preview page will be displayed. The Preview page includes the address to which the stocks will be mailed (be sure this is yours!), the BUN account that will be charged for the stocks, your e-mail address and a list of the requested stocks. The genotypes of all stocks you ordered are included. Check that the address and billing information is correct and that the genotypes are what you expected. You can add or delete stocks by using the Return to Form button and making corrections (if you return to the form you will need to reload any uploaded files). If the address we have on file for you is wrong, please ask us to correct it before you place an order (e-mail a Change of BUN Address if your group has a new address; use Add Me to the List to change your BUN affiliation).
• Restricted-use Stocks
  Deficiency and insertion lines generated and donated by Exelixis, Inc., have some restrictions on license-free use. You must agree to the conditions of distribution to place an order for any of these stocks. If a restricted-use stock number is included in your order a consent form will appear on the screen before the Preview Page is presented. The relevant stock numbers appear at the top of the page in red. Click Accept to agree to the conditions and proceed with your order. Click Reject to return to the order form, where you can removed the restricted stocks from your order.
• E-mail option
  Print the Preview page if you want a detailed record of your order. If a brief summary is all you need (BUN, Name, E-mail, Order type, Stock numbers) use the e-mail option to send the summary to yourself. You may need to adjust your mail configurations to make this option work for you.
• Error Message
  If you have requested numbers that do not correspond to currently available Bloomington stocks, selecting Preview from the order form will display an error message that lists the invalid numbers. Use the Return to Form button, remove the offending numbers and click Preview again. If you have uploaded a file with invalid numbers you will need to correct the file and then upload it again.

8. Submit your request
The order data you have submitted is added to a file on our server and a confirmation screen is displayed ("Your request has been submitted to the Bloomington Stock Center. No other confirmation will be sent."; if you do not reach this confirmation screen you have not completed the ordering process). Twice a week (see Shipping Schedule) we remove those files and process an order. An order round is closed when we remove the files from the server. All orders received in the same round on the same BUN will automatically be combined into one shipment. Multiple requests for the same stock number on the same BUN in the same order round will automatically be reduced to one copy of the stock.